Oh, do you have a source of lat/lon coordinates for the boundaries of time zones? It's a nontrivial task to compile one and keep it up to date, and I'm not aware of anybody who has taken on the responsibility of doing that. I hope you can show me that I'm an uniformed boob!
_______________________________ Paul H. Harder II, Ph.D., AMS Meteorologist and Software Developer Weather Insight, L.P. www.WeatherInsight.com Direct: 713-361-4966, Tech Support: 713-361-4985 Weather Insight - Redefining Weather Risk Management This e-mail is strictly confidential, privileged, and only for the use of the intended recipients. Please notify sender immediately if you have received this in error. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law. -----Original Message----- From: William Heath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 20:49 To: Harder, Paul Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Very unique need I think I may have found a possible solution. If you go to: http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&srt=npan &col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&geo=-54 You can find all the cities for a certain country with their longitude/latitude. I believe it is possible to know the longitudes/latitudes for a certain timezone yes? If so then you can know all the countries and cities in a certain timezone. There is also a perl module for interfacing with the gazetteer data at: http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/WWW-Gazetteer-0.23/Gazetteer.pm The only problem I have now then is finding the postal codes for the cities. Any ideas on that? -Tim On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Harder, Paul < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is not, in fact, a unique need. I have it too, but I find that > I am having to live my life without satisfying the need. Hmmm..., > maybe it's just a "want". The sad fact is that there is no source of > information (that I or anybody else on this list has been able to > find) that gives you what you want. To know all of the cities, towns, > villages, hamlets and airports that are within a given time zone, you > will have to actually visit all of the cities, towns, villages, > hamlets and airports in the world, ask them what time zone they are > in, and compile a database from which you can later select only those > cities, towns, villages, hamlets and airports in the zone of interest. > Of course, by the time you finish a small subset of that task, some of > those cities, towns villages, hamlets and airports will have changed > from one time zone to another, and they likely won't think to tell you > about it. To further complicate this, many countries and states are > divided among multiple time zones, and there is nothing (in principle) > to prevent even a postal code to be so divided if the folks who live there choose to divide it. > If that sounds like I'm depressed... Call me "Eeyore". I'm finding > ways to work around the issue. I hope you do to. > > Then again, if you ever do find a solution to this problem, I hope > you'll remember to tell all of us here on this list. > > > _______________________________ > Paul H. Harder II, Ph.D., AMS > Meteorologist and Software Developer > Weather Insight, L.P. > www.WeatherInsight.com > Direct: 713-361-4966, Tech Support: 713-361-4985 Weather Insight - > Redefining Weather Risk Management > > This e-mail is strictly confidential, privileged, and only for the use > of the intended recipients. Please notify sender immediately if you > have received this in error. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail > is a violation of federal criminal law. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Heath [ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 20:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Very unique need > > Hi All, > > I am enjoying DateTime::TimeZone as usual. I have a unique need to be > able to somehow know all the countries, cities, and postal codes that > are in a certain TimeZone, can anyone recommend a way to do that? > > -Tim >
